On Fighters winning Rounds, Not fights.

Winning rounds (instead of fights) is very rampant in MMA now. This is just one example.

From Matt Hughes:

I think the crowd actually hurt Johny because they were booing so much on his take downs, and the judges hear that. So when the crowd is yelling, that's not good for the judges.

And also, I believe Johny got this from GSP, GSP is not a guy to go out and finish fights. He wants to win three of the five rounds. He wants to win a round, win another round and then win another.

Johny really tried to do the same thing; which is not go out there and win fights, but go out there and win rounds.

That's not the most exciting thing to watch, is watch a guy go out and try to win rounds. People want to see a guy go out and finish the fight. I think Johny got caught up in the whole aspect of trying to win rounds based on take downs.

You never saw Johny go out there and try to finish the fight. There were a couple of times when he had Robbie stumbling a bit where he could've capitalized on it. I think Johny had a hard weight cut, I think that affected him. I think now he will go in with the mindset of finishing the fight and not let it go to the judges."

Lots of coaches teach that. Just win the majority of rounds and play it safe. Less chance of getting caught with a submission or TKO'ed. I don't envy the judges bc they have to score on the individual round basis. It would be nice if they gave the judges an opportunity to score each round then a 4th category based solely on general control/flow/momentum/feel of the fight i.e. who you think won the overall fight. (maybe just used for split/draws).....imagine if they had that but the fans could text/tweet in who they think won the fight and have that factor into the official scoring.

Matt Hughes is literally the only person in the world who will sound like a complete and total bitter a--hole saying this about GSP. He finished your *** twice Matt.

As far as winning rounds - I think this is something great champs learn over time. Once you start fighting number one contenders every fight it becomes harder and harder to finish fights. You have guys who go from finishing 90% of their fights in 3 rounds or less to fighting all 5 rounds at least every other time if not more often. If you know that odds are that you are going to go to a decision, learn how to win them.

Matt Hughes is literally the only person in the world who will sound like a complete and total bitter a--hole saying this about GSP. He finished your *** twice Matt.

GSP went something like 8 fights straight, never losing a single round to anyone until Shields took two rounds basically on an eye poke. Then in the next two fights went 10 rounds without giving up a round. Then fought Johny in a close fight.

Basically, in 12 fights, over almost 6 years, GSP won 46 of the 51 rounds he fought. That's not a guy who looks to win 3 of 5. This is a guy who tries to win every round, all the time.

Hughes will never get over his butthurt and it pains him greatly that GSP was a better champion, for longer, against better competition, made more money, had better sponsors and a bigger fan-base.

Oh yeah, he was beating your *** in the first fight until you got the armbar, then he kicked your *** twice.

GSP went something like 8 fights straight, never losing a single round to anyone until Shields took two rounds basically on an eye poke. Then in the next two fights went 10 rounds without giving up a round. Then fought Johny in a close fight.

Basically, in 12 fights, over almost 6 years, GSP won 46 of the 51 rounds he fought. That's not a guy who looks to win 3 of 5. This is a guy who tries to win every round, all the time.

Hughes will never get over his butthurt and it pains him greatly that GSP was a better champion, for longer, against better competition, made more money, had better sponsors and a bigger fan-base.

Oh yeah, he was beating your *** in the first fight until you got the armbar, then he kicked your *** twice.

GSP went something like 8 fights straight, never losing a single round to anyone until Shields took two rounds basically on an eye poke. Then in the next two fights went 10 rounds without giving up a round. Then fought Johny in a close fight.

Basically, in 12 fights, over almost 6 years, GSP won 46 of the 51 rounds he fought. That's not a guy who looks to win 3 of 5. This is a guy who tries to win every round, all the time.

Hughes will never get over his butthurt and it pains him greatly that GSP was a better champion, for longer, against better competition, made more money, had better sponsors and a bigger fan-base.

Oh yeah, he was beating your *** in the first fight until you got the armbar, then he kicked your *** twice.